Yeah, I think a typewriter flash mob is a quintessential insurgent act. (Even more so if instead of taking place in a funky coffeehouse, it took place at an Apple store ...) I was glad to hear that it happened, and actually glad that I had nothing to do with planning it. That's a sign of spontaneous insurgency activity springing up, in independent cells of resistance.

I participated in a Direct Action Flaneurs insurgent typewriter event last year in New York's Grand Central Station. We used our typewriters in various locations in the terminal. But security guards prevented us from even entering the Apple Store. No Noiseless Portables allowed, apparently.

The great typewriter man Martin Tytell used to tell a similar story about how typewriters saved him in World War II. I believe he kept busy during the war producing typewriters with exotic typefaces such as Burmese.

My own father's typing skills helped him get stationed in Massachusetts during the Korean War.

I was privileged to be at that type-in. I brought in my Oliver 3 replete with sheet metal cover on a suitcase dolly, and if I remember correctly the regulars there did their best to "pretend" we weren't there. I mean, you have to really work at it not to notice an Oliver.